Experience

Blanche Macdonald Centre

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Sep 2008 - Present

  Meeting monthly, quarterly and annual sales goal. Developing new sales and marketing concepts. This includes working in a team and an independent environment. Training other Associate Directors. Connecting with inquiries to tour campuses, hold admission interviews with potential students and their families, detailing the course curriculum, payment plans, creating student budgets, detailing refund and withdrawals policies, school policies, admission criteria, assessing English capabilities, tuition scholarship requirements and student loans. Assisting the student and family by trouble shooting and working through obstacles. Setting the student up for success. Once accepted, following through with acceptance process, processing tuition payment transactions, registrations and enrolments. Dispersing course schedules, providing student housing information, and setting up financial aid funding. Once the student has started the program; industry networking, student support services, troubleshooting and problem solving any situation that may arise. Conflict resolution and communicating with family. Handling student cancellations and withdrawals. Ensuring proper handling of paperwork for each enrollment for A.R. and ensuing all information is documented in the database for each inquiry and student. Attending industry events. Excellent oral and written communication skills essential, ensuring the highest quality of service.



Phusion Fix Designs

• Vancouver, Canada Area

• Business Owner

  • 2006 - 2008

  Design/Manufacture/Market and Sell fashion forward pieces for wholesale under the Phusion Label. Designed and manufactured in Canada.  Phusion product mix included: Women’s apparel and accessories for Ready to Wear and Golf markets.  Phusion product mix included Contemporary Uniforms Ensembles for the lounge and restaurant industry.  Phusion Coroporate Promotional Products supplied premium apparel and items for corporate promotional divisions.  Customers included: Leone’s L2, Bionic Footwear in Yaletown, Brooklyn Clothing Company, Nacional, Vancouver Golf and Country Club, Northview Golf and Country Club, Westwood Plateau, Riverside Golf, Women’s Media Golf Classic, Beyond Restaurant and Lounge located at The Century Plaza Hotel and Spa, School Districts, PowerWood Corp., Probyn Export Ltd., and Coast Clear Wood. Sales, Marketing and Promotion: Cold calling potential buyers and networking to offer the Phusion product in order to land accounts and promote the Phusion product and services.



Pamela Chong

• Vancouver, Canada Area

• Freelance Fashion Designer

  • 2003 - 2008

  Freelance Designer: with 20 years of direct design, manufacturing and business experience in vertical and wholesale markets. Teaching and Guest Speaking:  Vancouver Community College: Teaching FASH 1204 Fashion Trends Forecasting  Kwantlen College University: Guest speaking on an ongoing basis, grading Graduate Portfolios and performed mock interviews with each graduating student. Perform Factory Tours with various Fashion Kwantlen classes.  Blanche Macdonald Centre- Guest Speaking  John Casablanca International – Guest Speaking



Phoenix West Apparel Limited ( Formerly Aero Garments Limited)

• Vancouver, Canada Area

• Design Director

  • 2003 - 2005

  Design Director: Executing and Designing a 100 piece ladies sportswear line from concept to finished product: designing and merchandising all styles and groupings. Responsible for: sourcing all fabrics and trims, calculating all costings, working with the patternmaker and sample sewers and performing fittings.  Research and Development; travelling, semi annually, to cities such as: New York, Montreal, Toronto and Seattle to source styling, fabrication and to forecast the trends.  Website Creation: Built Aero/Phoenix West’s first ever website in collaboration with Ideographic Strategies Inc. Due to an extremely tight budget, we had to be creative and resourceful by using students from the Blanche Macdonald Make Program, recruited volunteer models, used our own accessories and built a portable changing room on wheels that rolled down the sea wall as we moved locations for the lifestyle photo shoot. I creative directed, styled and executed the photo shoot and website concept as well as photographed 300 product shots.  Managing Design Team: responsible for the design assistant, the pattern maker, the sample sewer. Hiring and terminating staff, scheduling reviews, salary increases and holidays.  Line Release: responsible for semi-annually presenting the completed clothing line to Western Canadian and USA Representatives. Travelling to the USA to work the line with the Sales Reps at the Trade Shows.



Aero Garments Limited

• Vancouver, Canada Area

• Head Designer

  • 2003 - 2005

  Design Director: Executing and Designing a 100 piece ladies sportswear line from concept to finished product: designing and merchandising all styles and groupings. Responsible for: sourcing all fabrics and trims, calculating all costings, working with the patternmaker and sample sewers and performing fittings.  Research and Development; travelling, semi annually, to cities such as: New York, Montreal, Toronto and Seattle to source styling, fabrication and to forecast the trends.  Website Creation: Built Aero/Phoenix West’s first ever website in collaboration with Ideographic Strategies Inc. Due to an extremely tight budget, we had to be creative and resourceful by using students from the Blanche Macdonald Make Program, recruited volunteer models, used our own accessories and built a portable changing room on wheels that rolled down the sea wall as we moved locations for the lifestyle photo shoot. I creative directed, styled and executed the photo shoot and website concept as well as photographed 300 product shots.  Managing Design Team: responsible for the design assistant, the pattern maker, the sample sewer. Hiring and terminating staff, scheduling reviews, salary increases and holidays.  Line Release: responsible for semi-annually presenting the completed clothing line to Western Canadian and USA Representatives. Travelling to the USA to work the line with the Sales Reps at the Trade Shows.



A-WEAR CLOTHING INC ( A division of Leone Luxury Fashions)

• Vancouver, Canada Area

• Head Designer

  • 2001 - 2002

  Head Designer: I was scouted by the Leone Family in December 1994 to design and execute the high fashion A-WEAR Collection of 20,000 units for Men and Women with line release deadline of August 5th, 1995. ( Eight months) Took time off in 1998 and then returned.  Product category range included career wear, street wear, fashion wear, active wear, shoes, bags, jewelry, belts and other accessories. All product had to be exclusive to the A-WEAR store. All product had to be designed and manufactured in Canada.  Executing and Designing from concept to finished product: all styles and groupings. Sourcing all fabrics, trims, calculating costing, working with patternmaker and sample sewers.  Production Coordinator : responsible for executing all production through local factories: assigning each production run to specific factories, negotiating all production costs, sample time frames, production windows, deliveries and performing quality control.  Managing the Design Team: responsible for hiring, job descriptions, salaries, daily schedules.  Traveling for research, development for fashion forecasting of styling, colours and fabrics.



A-WEAR CLOTHING INC. ( A division of Leone Luxury Fashion)

• Vancouver, Canada Area

• Head Designer

  • 1994 - 1997

  Head Designer: I was scouted by the Leone Family in December 1994 to design and execute the high fashion A-WEAR Collection of 20,000 units for Men and Women with line release deadline of August 5 th, 1995. ( Eight months)  Product category range included career wear, street wear, fashion wear, active wear, shoes, bags, jewelry, belts and other accessories. All product had to be exclusive to the A-WEAR store. All product had to be designed and manufactured in Canada.  Executing and Designing from concept to finished product: all styles and groupings. Sourcing all fabrics, trims, calculating costing, working with patternmaker and sample sewers.  Production Coordinator : responsible for executing all production through local factories: assigning each production run to specific factories, negotiating all production costs, sample time frames, production windows, deliveries and performing quality control.  Managing the Design Team: responsible for hiring, job descriptions, salaries, daily schedules.  Traveling for research, development for fashion forecasting of styling, colours and fabrics.



THE PLUM CLOTHING COMPANY

• Vancouver, Canada Area

• Creative Designer

  • 1991 - 1994

   Designer for Plum Clothing Company: Tobias Label  Production Coordinator: executing production, working with factories, the pattern maker, sample sewers, performing fittings, shipping and receiving.  Buyer for the ready-made and private label merchandise under the Tobi Sport and Dani D labels with the owner Katie O’Brien.  Plum had successfully produced a small selection of styles prior to hiring me as their first designer. Upon my departure, after 3 years, Plum was producing 80% of their overall merchandise with tremendous success. The other 20% was ready-made product that we bought in from various supplies.  Travel to New York, Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles and Seattle.



SURREY CLASSICS ( owned by Mr. Jax)

• Vancouver, Canada Area

• Merchandising Assistant

  • 1988 - 1990

  Assistant Merchandiser to 4 Designers and 7 Women’s Sportswear Lines specializing in petites and outerwear. Responsibilities included technical drawings, concept boards, costing, working with fabrics, patterns, sample line, creating look books, rendering new fabric colour ways, lap dips and production. Assistant Merchandiser to 4 Designers and 7 Women’s Sportswear Lines specializing in petites and outerwear. Responsibilities included technical drawings, concept boards, costing, working with fabrics, patterns, sample line, creating look books, rendering new fabric colour ways, lap dips and production.